Over Presidents' Day weekend, I traveled back to Buffalo (where I grew up) and was able to take in the 84,000-square-foot, zinc-clad building located at the center of Buffalo's museum district along the Elmwood corridor. Not only is the new center next to the famous H.H. Richardson Buffalo State Hospital buildings (beautifully captured at night by Christopher Payne in his book Asylum), but it is located across the street from the renowned Alright-Knox Art Gallery (with an expansion designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill) and near the city's Frederick Law Olmstead park. Photo by KC Kratt. Photo 1 of 8 in Burchfield Penney Art Center by Miyoko Ohtake

Burchfield Penney Art Center

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Over Presidents' Day weekend, I traveled back to Buffalo (where I grew up) and was able to take in the 84,000-square-foot, zinc-clad building located at the center of Buffalo's museum district along the Elmwood corridor. Not only is the new center next to the famous H.H. Richardson Buffalo State Hospital buildings (beautifully captured at night by Christopher Payne in his book Asylum), but it is located across the street from the renowned Alright-Knox Art Gallery (with an expansion designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill) and near the city's Frederick Law Olmstead park. Photo by KC Kratt.